[NF1-800]

This might sound a bit off but why not asking. At least from my point of view, a clock is the station's most important accessory, of course along with the timetable and others. 1st of all i have no idea what are the limits in making new features in Open Rails but this is what came into my mind...creating clocks for stations/platforms that synchronize with the actual time in the simulation. I am not sure how this could be done or if it can be done, but i am thinking at 2 types of clocks, the old style arm clock and digital type. In what manner could the information be sent to a simple object is above my knowledge. All i am thinking of is having an organized hierarchy in that object that can receive information from the simulation time, but...how to send that information to it in order to animate?. Sorry if i am asking too much.

[Coolhand101]

I was thinking this not too long ago. One of my routes has a static digital clock showing a time of day and a time of night. Would be nice to see these clocks showing real sim time!

Thanks

[Csantucci]

That's a nice idea.

[EricF]

I like that idea. Clocks are "part of the landscape" at railway stations -- from the big, old-fashioned ones sometimes placed on a tower attached to the station to be seen from a distance, to the multitude of highly visible digital clocks along the platforms of commuter lines.

I'm thinking there would have to be a defined animation object that could be attached/included as part of 3D scenery/structures. We can have animated scenery objects, so that's probably a start. It would have to be defined as a clock and have a means to get input from the simulation's in-world time. Could it get the time in the same way as a digital clock display in a locomotive cab?

[thegrindre]

Total waste of good resources, IMHO. Nobody is going to stand around and watch a clock, so what matter does it make what time it is? It would be a total waste of resources.

http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/oldstry.gif

[Lindsayts]

thegrindre, on 14 December 2016 - 06:30 PM, said:

Total waste of good resources, IMHO. Nobody is going to stand around and watch a clock, so what matter does it make what time it is? It would be a total waste of resources.

http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/oldstry.gif

Its no more a waste of resources than almost any high detailed graphics in a train sim, it would be nice though if there was a general animation format where a developer could easily animate anything mechanical as one can do in OpenBVE.

Lindsay

[EricF]

I think the general idea is to have station and platform clocks display the current sim time, the same as you'd get from the clock found in the "Next Station" display in the sim. It matters for passenger, particularly commuter and urban corridor routes. Not as important on wayside scenery or freight routes. But still worthwhile for realism where it's appropriate.

[timothyskinner]

Local time, railway time or standard time?

http://www.bristolpo...98-detail/story

[cjakeman]

Lindsayts, on 15 December 2016 - 12:02 AM, said:

a general animation format where a developer could easily animate anything mechanical as one can do in OpenBVE

Do you where I can find details of this?

Thanks,

[Lindsayts]

cjakeman, on 15 December 2016 - 11:23 AM, said:

Do you where I can find details of this?

Thanks,

The Attachment below contains the Docs for the Animated and the CSV file formats also the source code for AnimatedObjectParser.cs

This is from an older version of openBVE

 openBVE_Animated.zip (594.66K)
Number of downloads: 594

There are two main OpenBVE sites.......

http://openbve-project.net/

and

https://sites.google...openbvesim/home

I cannot at this stage find the complete docs, the above are stated to be out of date, but the seem to match the source code. I found it easy to read both the Docs and the code and I believe show great promise.OpenBVE states any of there code can be reused as long as it is made clear the reused code is NO LONGER part of openBVE.

Note: I do have the complete docs and source for this particular version of openBVE, it is now several years old, but there's only a couple of people working on it now and not a lot of movement.

Lindsay

[Goku]

OpenBVE formats are primitive and only advantage of them is that you can create content, like animations, using text editor.
But don't think it is real "advantage".

[Lindsayts]

cjakeman, on 15 December 2016 - 11:23 AM, said:

Do you where I can find details of this?

Thanks,

The Attachment below contains the Docs for the Animated and the CSV file formats also the source code for AnimatedObjectParser.cs

This is from an older version of openBVE

 openBVE_Animated.zip (594.66K)
Number of downloads: 594

There are two main OpenBVE sites.......

http://openbve-project.net/

and

https://sites.google...openbvesim/home

I cannot at this stage find the complete docs on the web, the above are stated to be out of date, but the seem to match the source code. I found it easy to read both the Docs and the code and I believe show great promise.OpenBVE states any of there code can be reused as long as it is made clear the reused code is NO LONGER part of openBVE.

Lindsay

[Lindsayts]

Post Script, I do use the openBVE animated format in my own work I have though completely rewriten the parser as the existing code in no way matched the renderer I use.

Lindsay

[Lindsayts]

opnBVE's source code 1.4.3 conatains no licence documentation the website though does say..........................

"All openBVE Content released fall under the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Profit, Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license"

Sadly the openbve website that carried the docs including the Forking doc is no longer with us.

Lindsay

[jonas]

NF1-800, on 13 December 2016 - 04:04 PM, said:

...creating clocks for stations/platforms that synchronize with the actual time in the simulation. ...

A great idea I think! A standard is conceivable, which treats a shape as analogue clock with special names of the subobjects (similar to the subobject name "TRACKPIECE" at turntables). For example:



So no animation in the shape would be necessary, only the pivots have to be centrally aligned. No further files are needed in OR. The subobject names itself would declare a shape as a analoge clock.